Enemy Lines: Warfare, Childhood, and Play in Batticaloa by Margaret Trawick

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Enemy traces captures the extreme tale of girls and boys coming of age in the course of a civil conflict. Margaret Trawick lived and labored in Batticaloa in japanese Sri Lanka, the place millions of youths were recruited into the Sri Lankan armed resistance move referred to as the Tamil Tigers. This compelling account of her studies is a strong exploration of ways childrens reply to the presence of struggle and the way adults have replied to the presence of kids during this clash. Her fantastically written account, including voices of the teens and teenagers who've joined the Tamil Tigers, brings alive a area the place youth, conflict, and play became commingled in an international of continuing uncertainty.

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In a uniWed state, ideally, there is no violent conXict. In fact, unity is almost synonymous with peace in this worldview, and both are conjoined with a notion of justice. But violent conXict is necessary to establish the uniWed state in the Wrst place. Again the message seems to be that a king cannot be a Buddhist, that, in general, kingship and Buddhism cannot be reconciled. But today, as then, the idea of a uniWed Sri Lanka is sacred to Sinhalese Buddhists, and they cite the Mahavamsa in support of their claim that the island belongs to them alone.

Who belongs to a certain society? Who has a certain lineage? Who behaves in a certain way? 24 ConXicts were between kings, and not between diVerent categories of human being. In the medieval Tamil Saiva texts, Buddhists (bauttarkal ) were not equated with Sinhala people. Buddhists were seen by Saivas as exponents of a rival religion, and not inhabitants of a speciWc geographic region. ConXicts in the Tamil country, too, were between kings, who adopted one or another religious persuasion. There were also conXicts between religious communities, each carrying the banner of a diVerent god.

But the current fear of Tamils as “outsiders” is a classic reaction of the sort identiWed by Douglas. Tamils are blamed for all the internal problems faced by Sinhalese. ” But war against the Tamils exacerbates problems and quarrels within Sinhalese society. The idealized unity of the past is not the same as the sought-after unity of the present. After the Chola rulers were driven out of Lanka, Sinhala civilization rallied. Over the next hundred years in Lanka, Buddhism was revived, renewed, and restored.

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